MKI Election Assessment – Better Alternatives in the EP – An Election Assessment
MKI ELECTION ASSESSMENT
This year, 720 MEPs will sit in the European Parliament, where the traditionally largest moderate right-wing European People’s Party (EPP) has increased its number of MEPs from 176 to 185, the European Conservatives and Reformists from 69 to 73 and Identity and Democracy from 49 to 58 compared to the 2019 elections. The left has visibly weakened, with the Socialists and Democrats gaining 137 seats, three fewer than five years ago, while the Greens lost 19 seats, now holding just 52, and the left-wing party family will have 36 MEPs in the EP, with one seat lost. The most exciting part is just beginning, as 100 MEPs currently have no party family, and even within the aforementioned political groups, there are some who will not continue as part of the same party family within European politics.